jeff buckley

August 29, 2014  As Labor Day Weekend approaches, the summer's last barbecues and beach parties find themselves wanting for the perfect soundtrack. SPIN has you covered with our "100 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1994" Spotify playlist. From Nine Inch Nails' list-topping "Closer" to Veruca Salt's brooding hit "Seether," the party-ready mix serves as the perfect mixture of nostalgia and celebration. …Read on

August 18, 2014  In 1994, the distinction between "mainstream" and "alternative" evaporated. Green Day and the Offspring brought hook-heavy punk to the Billboard charts, middle-of-the-road acts such as Soul Asylum and Live helped calcify "alt-rock" into a blockbuster radio format, and Nirvana's fate as future classic-rock legends was sealed with Kurt Cobain's death. Beck rebranded "loser" as a badge of honor and Trent Reznor said he wanted to... …Read on

April 2, 2014  Jeff Buckley's inspired, haunting cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is one of the 25 new audio recordings chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress. The late singer-songwriter's 1994 rendition, from his only album Grace, became his sole No. …Read on

April 1, 2013  Though the thing has racked up a few handsome-looking quotables, the jury's still out as to whether Greetings From Tim Buckley is going to "one of the finest origin stories in recent pop culture history," as Screencrush kinda-sorta said. …Read on

September 18, 2012  At long last, thanks to The Hollywood Reporter, there's a full trailer for the upcoming Greetings From Tim Buckley, a biopic and (as we can now glean) indie rom-com starring Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley as the titular folk star's troubled singing son, Jeff Buckley. …Read on

August 6, 2012  You've had over a year now to come to terms with the fact that Penn Badgley, the dude from Gossip Girl, is portraying Jeff Buckley in the upcoming biopic Greetings From Tim Buckley. Photos of the actor on set proved he could cop the look of Buckley, but questions remained whether Badgley could imitate the late singer's sound. …Read on

April 21, 2011 
Green Day's Broadway version of American Idiot, which closes this week, has pleased audiences and grossed more than $38 million, so it's no wonder that artists like the Flaming Lips, the Decemberists, Regina Spektor, and Tom Waits are developing their own musical theatre projects to reach their fans. Of course, for every American Idiot there are fiascos like U2's Spider-Man or Bob Dylan's... thing. …Read on

April 11, 2011 
The life of late singer Jeff Buckley will be the subject of a biopic directed by Ryan Jaffe (The Rocker). Buckley's mother Mary Guibert will be an executive producer and the movie will feature the songwriter's music. Buckley, who released only one studio album (1994's Grace), died tragically from drowning at age 30 in 1997. …Read on